Methinks

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: en, /mɪˈθɪŋks/

Alternative forms

• methinketh, me thinketh, me thinks, mythinks, my thinks

Origin

From me ("object pronoun") + think ("to seem"). In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by , me thinketh; and in Old English by , mē þyncþ. Compare synonymous German mich dünkt, Old Norse mér þykkir (Icelandic mér þykir).

Full definition of methinks

Contraction

1. (archaic or humorous) It seems to me.
• Chaucer Canterbury Tales|General Prologue|text=Me thinketh accordant to reson
  To tellen you al the condicion
• Shakespeare Richard 3|III|i|text=methinks the truth should live from age to age,
• Shakespeare Hamlet|III|II|text=The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
• 1862, George Augustus Henry Sala, The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, ... Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name., And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, ...
• 2003, Arrested Development (TV series), "":Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.